Brazil’s Lula uses Women’s Day to tout new spending plans

Brazil’s President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva announced measures Wednesday seeking to promote and protect women after years of setbacks in their causes blamed in part on a rise in far-right forces. At a ceremony in the capital, Brasilia, Lula presented a package of over 25 measures, the most significant of which is a bill […]

Egyptian authorities detain engineer over deadly train crash

Egyptian prosecutors Wednesday ordered the detention of an engineer pending an investigation into a train crash a day earlier that killed four people near Cairo. The passenger train slammed into a concrete barrier at a station in Qalyub city while traveling Tuesday to the Nile Delta city of Menouf, prosecutors said in a statement. As […]

10 armed gunmen attempt $32M heist at Chile airport, leaving 2 dead

An airport shootout in Chile’s capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber Wednesday in what authorities said was an attempted heist of more than $32 million in cash aboard a plane from Miami. Around 10 heavily armed robbers were able to skirt security measures to reach the runway at the Arturo Merino Ben?tez […]

Georgian police disperse crowd protesting foreign agent law by using water cannon, tear-gas

Police in the capital of Georgia used water cannon and tear-gas late Wednesday to disperse demonstrators around the parliament building protesting a draft law that they say could stifle media freedom and civil society. Lawmakers on Tuesday approved the first reading of the proposed law, which would require media and nongovernmental organizations that receive over […]

Turkish police tear gas protestors of Women’s Day march ban

Women in Turkey braved an official ban on an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, demonstrating for about two hours before police used tear gas to disperse remaining protesters and detained several people. Thousands converged on a central neighborhood Wednesday for a protest that combined women’s rights with the staggering toll of the deadly quake […]

Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall during private DC dinner

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, is hospitalized in Washington, D.C., after he fell Wednesday night. McConnell was attending a private dinner at a hotel in the nation’s capital when he tripped, Spokesman David Popp confirmed to Fox News Digital. He was taken to an area hospital to be treated. The extent of his injuries, […]

Bakhmut, la Stalingrado d’Ucraina: i due volti della battaglia

Read More Il valore politico che il presidente Zelensky e il ministro Kuleba stanno caricando sulla resistenza di Bakhmut viene accolto con perplessità dalla Nato, che ritiene inutile la difesa a oltranza della città. Lo ha detto persino il segretario generale Jens Stoltenberg: “Potrebbe cadere presto…”. L’intelligence occidentale inoltre non condivide le valutazioni di Kiev […]

Guerra Ucraina – Russia, le news di oggi. Bombardamenti nella notte su Odessa e Kharkiv

Read More Bombardamenti russi hanno colpito nella notte le regioni ucraine di Kharkiv e di Odessa, secondo quanto riportano i media locali. Le forze russe hanno attaccato l’oblast di Kharkiv prendendo di mira infrastrutture critiche, ha riferito il governatore regionale Oleh Syniehubov su Telegram specificando che una residenza privata è stata danneggiata. Nell’oblast di Odessa […]